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That cruel disgrace to medical science ' vivisection—which , according to the highest testimony , is totally unnecessary for the healing art—is about to be systematically practised in the University of Edinburgh , unless a healthy public opinion at once crushes the unholy proposal . "I have placed

p hysiology at the south-Avest corner , " says the architect , " because it is desirable to p lace this department in such a position that it cannot be overlooked , " and " that there is good space for keeping animals , and p lenty of south light to keep them in health . Good accommodation can also bo had for

keeping animals belonging to the pathological dej > artment . " We trust British surgeons will never be allowed to degenerate in to such monsters as Ma ] civdie . Vivisection ought at once to be made felony , and the law carried out Avith Rhadamanthus-like vigour , until higher morality renders it

unnecessary . I am glad to see that Mr . George Cameron has completed the ] oublication of his Charlie Lufton , an autobiographical novel , Avhich has been issued , like most of Dickens' ivorks , in monthly parts . I have not had time to read the printed copy yet

, but having perused the manuscript and advised its publication , I am glad to see it favourably reviewed in the " Athenaeum " and other papers . Some clay Ave may glance at it more fully . By the death of Bishop Thirwall ( though

at what some would call the ripe old age of seventy-five ) , England has lost one of her greatest men . As Freemasons , we cannot discuss his theological or political opinions ; but we are equally called upon

to reverence his useful labours as a man ot letters , ancl to " put him to Avorship" for the great amount of knoAvledge be had accumulated , and his holy life . Born at Stepney , February 11 th , 1797 , ancl educated first at the Charterhouse , and then at CambridgeAvhere he became a fellow of

, Trinity College , he Avas called to the bar at Lincoln ' s Inn , in 1 S 25 , and all are agreed would have made an excellent judge bad he continued in the profession . He Avas ordained in 1828 , and became Bishop of St . David ' s in 1840 and allowed to

re-, main there , both by Liberals and Conservatives , until his resignation , about a year before his death , although the "Times " regards htm as " the greatest of those AVIIO have adorned the English episcopate of this

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century , " and the " Athenaeum " declares him to be " the greatest Bishop whom the English Church has seen since Warburton . " I regret to state , that for many months before his decease he Avas almost , if not entirely , blind . His History of Greece alone Avas sufficient to give him a high place in the literary pantheon . Rose Cottage , Stokesley .

Masonic Song,

MASONIC SONG ,

For the Constitution of a New Chapter . Companions , Ave meet on this altar of thine , Mingling the gifts Ave have gathered for thee , Sweet with the odours of myrtle and pine

, Breeze of the prairie and breath of the sea , Meadow and mountain ancl forest and sea ; Sweet is the fragrance of myrtle and pine , SAveeter tbe incense we offer to thee , ' ¦ Companions once more round this altar of thine .

Angel of Peace , thou bast wandered too long ! Spread thy white Avings to the sunshine of love ! Come Avhile our voices are blended in song—Flto our ark like the storm-beaten dove !

y Fly to our ark on the wings of the dove , Speed o ' er the far-sounding billoAvsofsong , Crowned with thine olive-leaf garland of love , Angel of Peace , thou hast Avaited too long !

Angels of heaven quick answer tne strain 1 Hark ! a new birth-song is filling the sky ! Loud as the storm Avind that tumbles the main , Bid the full breath of the organ reply . Let the loud tempest of voices rep ly , Roll its long surge like the earth-shaking

main ; Swell the vast song till it mounts to the sky ; Angels of heaven all echo the strain . ¦— -Phila . Keystone .

An Old Maid's Mistake.

AN OLD MAID'S MISTAKE .

Miss Sop hia Prim was one AVIIO had advanced far enough in years to be entitled to that dreadful appellation , an old maid . Her a <* e WAS . about thirty-five , as near as any one could judge , for she Avas no excepii 2